cleaning with a damp soft cloth. Small particles of dirt
can act as an abrasive and damage the leather upholstery
and should be removed promptly with a damp cloth.
Stubborn soils can be removed easily with a soft cloth
and MOPARŪ Total Clean. Care should be taken to avoid
soaking your leather upholstery with any liquid. Please
do not use polishes, oils, cleaning fluids, solvents, detergents,
or ammonia-based cleaners to clean your leather
upholstery. Application of a leather conditioner is not

required to maintain the original condition."

Putting leather conditioner on the plastic (urethane) coating does nothing to preserve the leather. But it does make people feel good, and that's ok too.

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Haha, well I have seen lots of things in the manual that are not correct. I challenge anyone to condition 1/2 of your driver seat and not the other. After doing this for a year or two I bet you will see a difference.

I'm pretty new to this site but so far am impressed. Learning so much about my new summit. I do have a question about my seats. What is under the leather. It almost sounds like a plastic bag or something under the driver and passenger side front seats. Is this normal? I know its not a big thing just curious.

I'm pretty new to this site but so far am impressed. Learning so much about my new summit. I do have a question about my seats. What is under the leather. It almost sounds like a plastic bag or something under the driver and passenger side front seats. Is this normal? I know its not a big thing just curious.

It is some type of polymer mesh. It is there to allow the ventilated seats to work properly.

I use Chemical Guys products and have been using them for many years, all of their products are incredible. I use CG's inner clean which is an amazing plastic cleaner and their Leather Cleaner plus conditioner... on, well, leather of course.

Check out their youtube channel, they have a wealth of car care tutorials from novice to pro detailer. like me!

I have a 2014 Overland as well and I am having the same issue. I have 1250 miles on it and I own nothing that would cause such an abrasion. at first i thought i had got a smudge or something fell on it but after wiping it with water the top layer is cracking away from the underside just as a temporary tattoo would feel off of your skin.. my heart dropped when i saw this because it should not be happening with a 50k+ vehicle.

I am going to take it to the dealer with this information as ammo if they say they cant do anything about it.

Haha, well I have seen lots of things in the manual that are not correct. I challenge anyone to condition 1/2 of your driver seat and not the other. After doing this for a year or two I bet you will see a difference.

Only in your wallet. Unless you have an exotic car, the leather is coated with a plastic surface and any conditioner will never get through to the leather.